Guest landshark Posted November 7, 2009 Report Share Posted November 7, 2009 Hello, I'm new here so please let me know if there's a better forum. I look forward to your feedback. Here goes: I just installed Mandriva 2010 on a Dell e6500. I am very impressed with the distro and am glad to be back to Mandriva. (I was a Mandrake user "back in the day" but had to jump ship for work purposes.) My wireless worked great, both on the Live Disk _amazing! -- and on the initial install. It was flawless. But suddenly it stopped working, although I had not tinkered with it. Here are the symptoms and some details: 1. First, I know the Linksys access point is functioning. I tested it on another box. 2. For the configured wireless network, the connectivity is shown as almost nothing. I can't connect to it. Sometimes the connectivity is displayed as better -- three bars -- but once I select "connect" it drops to almost nothing. 3. I know from the past that the ndiswrapper drivers don't work well with this card. iwlagn + the iwlwifi firmware does the trick. Both were installed as part of the distro installation. Output from lspcidrake -v: iwlagn : Intel Corporation|Wireless WiFi Link 5100 [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:8086 device:4232 subv:8086 subd:1321) Output from modinfo iwlagn: version: 1.3.27kds description: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux firmware: iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode firmware: iwlwifi-5150-2.ucode firmware: iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode firmware: iwlwifi-6050-3.ucode firmware: iwlwifi-6000-3.ucode etc... output from lsmod | grep iwlagn iwlagn 160740 0 iwlcore 175976 1 iwlagn mac80211 149236 2 iwlagn,iwlcore cfg80211 89956 3 iwlagn,iwlcore,mac80211 iwconfig: lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wmaster0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=15 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 sit0 no wireless extensions. (***I'm not familiar with this one.***) ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:E8:AD:2E:73 inet addr:10.0.0.3 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: fe80::224:e8ff:fead:2e73/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:37829 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:8529 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:2 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:7520570 (7.1 MiB) TX bytes:1495014 (1.4 MiB) Memory:f6fe0000-f7000000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1500 (1.4 KiB) TX bytes:1500 (1.4 KiB) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:D6:09:91:8E UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:122 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:10637 (10.3 KiB) TX bytes:7487 (7.3 KiB) wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-24-D6-09-91-8E-F1-85-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP RUNNING MTU:0 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) At this point I'm flailing. Thoughts? Thanks for any insight. Landshark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Batson Posted November 8, 2009 Report Share Posted November 8, 2009 See if anything in this thread will help: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/269264 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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